There are many more news right now which are fuelling up this incidence of pumping. I came to know about the Russian stuff from your post while I was notified with my news alert channel that there is Worlds Largest Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) provider namely BlackRock is studying the potential of crypto currency profitability. They have recently made big group to specially study this market and thus making large investment on it. May be thats the reason this pump is occurring and many others too. Looks like all the news hit the market at the same time.